Where does “tukkuostaja” come from?

tukkuostaja (Finnish) comes from Finnish ostaja, from Finnish -ja, from Proto-Finnic -ja, from Proto-Uralic -ja — Forms the present participle.

tukkuostaja (Finnish): wholesale buyer, bulk buyer

Definitions

  1. wholesale buyer, bulk buyer

Ancestry of “tukkuostaja”, step by step

tukkuostaja traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish ostaja

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishostajaA buyer
2Finnish-ja-er
3Proto-Finnic-jaForms agent nouns from verbs
4Proto-Uralic-jaForms the present participle

via Finnish tukku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishtukkuwholesale; wad; tuft
2Finnishtukkotuft; clog, obstruction, block
3Finnishtukkiato block, to bar, to obstruct; to clog; "tukkia...
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